ignominious

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adj.

1. Marked by shame or disgrace: "It was an ignominious end ... as a desperate mutiny by a handful of soldiers blossomed into full-scale revolt" (Angus Deming).

2. Deserving disgrace or shame; despicable.

3. Degrading; debasing: "The young people huddled with their sodden gritty towels and ignominious goosebumps inside the gray-shingled bathhouse" (John Updike).

igno·mini·ous·ly adv.

igno·mini·ous·ness n.

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Adj.

ignominious - (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice"

inglorious, shameful, opprobrious, disgraceful, black

dishonorable, dishonourable - lacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor; "dishonorable in thought and deed"

ignominious

adjective humiliating, disgraceful, shameful, sorry, scandalous, abject, despicable, mortifying, undignified, disreputable, dishonourable, inglorious, discreditable, indecorous Many thought that he was doomed to ignominious failure.
worthy, honourable, reputable, creditable

Translations

ignominious [ˌɪgnəˈmɪnɪəs] ADJ [act, behaviour] → ignominioso, oprobioso; [defeat] → vergonzoso

ignominious [ˌɪgnəˈmɪniəs] adj [defeat, retreat] → ignominieux/euse

ignominious

adj → schmachvoll; (= humiliating) → entwürdigend; defeat → schmachvoll, schmählich; behaviour → schändlich, unehrenhaft; to come to an ignominious end → ein schmachvolles Ende finden

ignominious [ˌɪgnəˈmɪnɪəs] adj → vergognoso/a, ignominioso/a

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Black contemptible despicable dirty discreditable disgraceful dishonourable disreputable durance humiliating ignominiously ignominiousness Immurement incarceration infamous inglorious ingloriously Ingloriousness life imprisonment	For forty years together it will remember its injury down to the smallest, most ignominious details, and every time will add, of itself, details still more ignominious, spitefully teasing and tormenting itself with its own imagination. Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes. Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context To be drowned in a pond, though it might be called an ignominious fate by the ignorant, is yet a bright and peaceful ending in comparison with some other endings to one's earthly career which I have mentally quaked at in the intervals or even in the midst of violent exertions. The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context	Ignigenous ignimbrite Ignipotence Ignipotent ignis fatuus ignitable ignite ignited igniter Ignitible ignition ignition coil ignition interlock ignition key ignition lock ignition point ignition switch ignition system Ignitor ignitron Ignivomous Ignobility ignoble Ignobleness Ignobly ignominious ignominiously ignominiousness ignominy Ignomy ignoramus ignorance ignorant Ignorantism Ignorantist ignorantly ignorantness ignoratio elenchi ignore ignored Ignoscible Ignote ignotism ignotum per ignotius Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky Igor Sikorsky Igor Stravinsky Igor Tamm Igor Yevgeneevich Tamm Igorot	ignitrons Ignivomous IGNIWTFUROA Ignjatovic, Jakov IGNL IGNM IGNN IGNO IGNOAPS ignobility ignobility ignobility ignoble ignoble ignoble ignobleness ignobleness ignobleness ignobler ignobler ignobler ignoblest ignoblest ignoblest ignobly ignobly ignobly ignominia ignominies ignominies ignominious ignominiously ignominiously ignominiousness ignominiousness ignominy ignominy ignominy ignominy Ignomy ignorable ignorable ignorable coordinate ignoramus ignoramus ignoramuses ignoramuses ignorance ignorance ignorance ignorance Ignorance is bliss Ignorance is bliss Ignorance is bliss Ignorance is bliss Ignorance is no excuse Ignorance is Strengh Ignorance is Strength Ignorance of a Rival ignorance of law ignorance of law

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Black
contemptible
despicable
dirty
discreditable
disgraceful
dishonourable
disreputable
durance
humiliating
ignominiously
ignominiousness
Immurement
incarceration
infamous
inglorious
ingloriously
Ingloriousness
life imprisonment

For forty years together it will remember its injury down to the smallest, most ignominious details, and every time will add, of itself, details still more ignominious, spitefully teasing and tormenting itself with its own imagination.

Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context

Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.

Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context

To be drowned in a pond, though it might be called an ignominious fate by the ignorant, is yet a bright and peaceful ending in comparison with some other endings to one's earthly career which I have mentally quaked at in the intervals or even in the midst of violent exertions.

The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context

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